Leela, Cordo and the Doctor enter a large tunnel system. Are all the fashions on Pluto based on Quality Street wrappers?Īt least the Gatherer’s costume doesn’t put her off the character completely. Sue: Why is he dressed as a pink bee? His PA’s costume is naff, as well. Gatherer Hade suspects the TARDIS belongs to smugglers. ![]() And then, after some slapstick comedy, the Doctor follows. However, when Cordo spots the Gatherer, he makes a run for it. The Doctor talks Cordo down from the edge and the poor man tells him everything he needs to know about the planet’s sociopolitical problems. Sue: It’s a liquorice ****ing allsort again! That will only make things worse. The Doctor offers him a conciliatory jelly baby. How did they get away with this, Neil?Ĭordo is at the end of his tether because he can’t pay his taxes. Sue reaches for a cigarette as Cordo appears on the factory’s rooftop and shuffles towards its edge. Sue: It’s miles better than them doing it in a studio with some crappy CSO. Oh, go on, Doctor, take him.īut the Doctor doesn’t hear her and he leaves the poor mutt behind. But Buffy is a stupid Labrador and K9 is a supercomputer. The TARDIS arrives on Pluto in the far future and the Doctor and Leela discuss the prospect of going for a quick W-A-L-K without K9. When the time rotor stops moving, the Doctor leaps around the console room like a maniac. Sue: How can anyone concentrate when K9 is switched on? It sounds like the cleaners are in the studio next door. He tells Leela to shut up as he ponders his next move. Please, keep talking about the wood.īack on the TARDIS, the Doctor is playing chess with K9. The Gatherer sits behind a giant table made from ma-ho-gany. It was the same colour as the giant rib cage this guy is walking through now. Sue: An orangey-brown, three-wheeled sports car from the 1970s. It’s basically the same colour as a Bond Bug. Anyway, Cordo is supposed to pay his departed father’s death taxes to Gatherer Hade. It’s an astute observation (it helps that we watched the film again recently), because Roy Macready really does look like Jonathan Pryce. I feel better already.Ī nervous man named Cordo is loitering in what appears to be a very drab corridor. Sue: I would have just turned 16… Oh look, it’s Robert Holmes. Me: Only that it’s late 1977 and context is everything. ![]() ![]() Sue: Is there anything I should know about this one? A fan and his not-we wife watch Doctor Who from the very beginning…
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